ChikPapa Very disappointed :(

BroadcastChic Excellent, a Must See

Baseshment I like movies that are aware of what they are selling... without [any] greater aspirations than to make people laugh and that's it.

Sharkflei Your blood may run cold, but you now find yourself pinioned to the story.

walterdiaz-50874 Herbert Wise's Woman in Black is a blueprint on how a film should be made in order to scare the intelligent audience. Adapted from a book by the same name this Television film has one of the creepiest ghosts ever put on film- and she is there standing in broad daylight! The atmosphere is haunting and the pristine 16mm film stock lends itself well to the tone of the film. A remake starring Daniel Radcliffe was made in 2012 but it does away with everything that this film stands for-a minimalist approach. You should definitely see this movie- it maybe hard to procure but the entire film exists on you-tube.

myrddinfyrch A recent "best of" from a sadly neglected genre. The movie is a slow, simmering creep-fest with only one "jumpscare" - but since the hair on the back of your neck was upright already, it might fall out from that scene.Only reason it's not a full "10" is that presumably being a 'made for TV' movie they had a few corners cut for production - some sloppy framing, clumsy cuts, that sort of thing.FAR FAR FFAAAARRR superior to the recent remake. Don't bother seeing that one in the theatre; rent this **IF YOU CAN FIND IT** and prepare for bad dreams.

cloudrunner I had this TV film in my video collection until DVD came along. I now find it's only available on NTSC DVD. That makes it a bit of a faff on my current set-up as I have to go into the menus on my player to manually set it to NTSC. The picture quality isn't as good as PAL due to the slower fresh rate of NTSC.So I was wondering, with the new big-screen version due out soon, whether the current owners of the film might release this version on Region 2 DVD in PAL for it's original viewing audience who have such fond memories of watching it that Christmas? About the film - very atmospheric and creepy. I'll always remember Spider the Jack Russell, the creepy wax cylinder recordings, the unexplained happenings in the house, Arthur Kidd's convalescence and THAT scene... and the unforgiving Woman in Black.

railroadbee I remember watching this when i was around 15 and it really did scare me, obviously if you watch it in broad daylight with other people talking it will not scare you much, but watch it in the right way and it will.If your a fan of horror films that don't contain lots of blood and guts (which I like, but they don't scare me in the slightest) then this is for you.It is the scariest film I've ever seen, the only thing that has come close to it is the stage adaptation of the book which is great.Now its not perfect, but with th money they had and when it was made its as good as it could have been.Actually looking forward to the 2012 adaptation, don't think it will be as well done but still looking forward to it.